toff

• n. 金持ち、ダンディ、ドレッサー
• n.(トフ)人の名前；(ロ)トフ

元々は18世紀半ばのオックスフォード大学のキャンパス?スラングで、貴族の子弟や社会的地位の高い父親を持つ学生を指す。のちに俗語化され、"fop "や "playboy "と呼ばれるようになった。

toff

toff: [19] Toff probably originated as an alteration of tuft [14], which was used from the 18th century as an Oxford University slang term for a ‘titled undergraduate’ (students who came from noble families wore a gold tassel or ‘tuft’ on their caps). Tuft itself was adapted from Old French tofe or toffe ‘tuft’, a word of Germanic origin.
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toff (n.)

lower-class London slang for "stylish dresser, man of the smart set," 1851, said by OED to be probably an alteration of tuft, formerly an Oxford University term for a nobleman or gentleman-commoner (1755), in reference to the gold ornamental tassel worn on the caps of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge whose fathers were peers with votes in the House of Lords.

1. Some said he was a toff in disguise.

変装した紳士だと言う人もいる。

2.He came out no end of a toff .

彼はとてもきれいに出てきた。